Benedict Arnold’s Brunch Truck

Short review: #FAIL
Long review: True to it’s namesake: Benedict Arnold; original American Traitor, these «egg benedicts» betray any real semblance of a real eggs benedict, so it’s very aptly named. But the joke is on anyone dumb enough to try this truck.
I was unlucky enough to stumble upon this rip-​off truck several months ago. Honestly, I’m surprised to see they have a Unilocal page and figured they’d be long out of business. Prices are more expensive than eating in a quality sit down brunch spot yet you get to eat this out of a tiny cardboard box and try to slice through your benedict with a dull plastic knife, a truly depressing experience.
Benedict’s and hash served room temperature, eggs nearly hard boiled, with hollandaise sauce that taste like it was out of a can. WTF was I thinking? Yah, my bad on this one, but shame on them too! I also found the service, surly and rude. It’s as if the owner said, hmm I wanna start a food truck but what should I do, then he gathered the food types of every food truck in the city and said, ‘I got it: Benedicts! And we can name the truck after the original American traitor! I’m so brilliant!’ The lack of love in this food is all too apparent.
Bad idea.
Bad execution
Tip to owner: blow up this f-​ing truck and start over! On second thought, just blow up the truck, because businesses like yours don’t deserve a second chance.

OH MAN THIS FOOD WOULD BE SO GOOD IF I JUST HAD MORE PATIENCE.
Because clearly patience means that my taste buds will adapt to cold under-​cooked potatoes, cold hollandaise over a cold egg on a cold english muffin.
You know, I bet the food would even pretty good if it made it to my mouth within 15 minutes of ordering, but an hour and a half later (counting the first second I step in line until the time I get my order) is a little unreasonable. I probably should just re-​adjust my expectations and assume that food should arrive cold and take 45 minutes or more to get to me. My bad guys, ⁵⁄₅.

I have been on a Benny craze lately but wasn’t craving it today until I saw Benedict Arnold’s food truck menu as I was walking around the presidio and noticed a particular, delicious, item on their menu: Benedict Burger.
BENEDICT BURGER ($ 12):
A ¹⁄₃ lb. patty w/​a poached egg in between a toasted English muffin and of course with some hollandaise sauce but I had to add some avocado to that shizz (+$ 2). You also get to choose between a small salad or some hash browns as your side, I had to go for some hash which were a little on the bland side but no worries on that because what won me over was that burger patty with the broken yolk combo, OH BABY YASSS! Talking about it now is making my mouth water, I have definitely found my new fave food truck.
Just a note:
Their hollandaise sauce was a little bland also, tasted more on the buttery side. Add a little more salt and it would have been perf.
PRICING:
Now, I’ve checked out numerous food trucks/​vendors of Off The Grid and there’s a lot of them who over charge for what they’re selling but Benedict Arnold’s definitely has a justifiable menu.
WAITING:
I see a lot of people complain here about how long they had to wait, whether they were waiting in a long line to order or waiting a long time to get their food, HAVE SOME PATIENCE! Not sure how long this vendor has been running, maybe they’ve fixed some of their kinks before I found them but I didn’t experience much problems when it came to the waiting game. I cook here and there and I know how difficult it can be when it comes to perfectly poached eggs, can you imagine trying to poach maybe 5 eggs, at once, in a pot? Haha. But, I can also see how frustrating it can be for unknowingly customers to wait so long for some darn eggs.
I see Benedict Arnold’s approach on being a on-​the-​go brunch truck and I’d really love for them to stay in the Off The Grid queue so be patient everyone ! Don’t expect your order to be done within 5 minutes or 10… Maybe 15 minutes (HA) but it’s definitely worth the wait!

Waited over an hour for our food today, and when we finally got it, the eggs were totally overcooked (like a hard-​boiled egg instead of a runny poached egg) and the bacon and hashbrowns were cold and soggy. My friend’s was the same.
We went back to try to get properly cooked eggs, and the rude guy (only male in the truck) said they are backed up and don’t have time to fix it. Offered money back, which was not a great choice after waiting for this poorly prepared food for over an hour.
If you can’t get eggs right, and you are a eggs benedict truck, think you might be in trouble. To add insult to injury, your team is rude and unwilling to cook eggs properly even when made aware that they were improperly cooked. Never again.

The food is ok but the wait is brutal, I waited 20 mins for the food when there was maybe 3 ppl in front of me. If you are not hungry, my suggestion is order the food, walk around for 20 mins and come back. Your food will be ready by then.

An hour wait, my friends, an hour wait: 30 minutes in the order line, and 30 minutes waiting for my food. That wouldn’t have been so bad, if it weren’t for the fact that I was ticket number 81, and all of 82, 83, 84, 85, and 86 got their orders before me. Brutal. And to add even more insult, the prep cook dropped the seasoning shaker on my hash browns, which made the hash browns too salty to eat. Didn’t get much in the way of apology for any of these slights. What else… the Crab Benedict is actually decent and something I would order again, if it weren’t such an expensive and small portion. These issues aren’t even isolated events; look at the other reviews before me. That tells me Benedict Arnold’s Brunch Truck is not learning from feedback that is right there in front of them, and not making an effort to improve a dining experience that is well below-​par of what I expect of a food truck at an Off-​the-​Grid event.

Waited 45 minutes before they started calling out numbers around mine. After about 10 – 15 additional orders came out for people who all ordered after me, I inquired about where the heck mine was. They looked through the receipts and couldn’t find mine. They looked around some more and apparently it was on the ground. They apologized and said they would make my order immediately. I had to wait another 15 minutes before I finally got it. I was very annoyed that it took sooooooo long and some asking to get one little egg to eat. Avoid this truck for their inefficiency, disorder, and slowness!

Should’ve checked the reviews before getting in line — my bad.
After 55 minutes of waiting, they got my order wrong and added hollandaise sauce to *two* separate dishes I ordered without any sauce. Considering how long the wait was in the first place (along with them screwing up and magnifying my wait), I went and asked for my money back, since I never speak up when other people typically would. The chef/​owner literally laughed it off — I was shocked. My friends in the restaurant industry have told me that *good* establishments go out of their way to make things right after a blunder. His reply? «Not in America, buddy.» (Along with plenty of other rude retorts I don’t feel the need to repeat.)
Considering the prices are basically restaurant-​level, the service and execution should match. They don’t. That alone is reason enough to never return.

had the egg benedict burger… solid.

Terrible. Line moves at about 5 people per hour, staff is rude and food sucks. Avoid at all costs.

Still waiting for my food its been over 45 mins. Very slow, unorganized, and the lady handling money touches the food as well.
Never again

For the cost and wait time I expected a lot better. The food was average and and the service was terrible.
We waited in line for about an hour with only ten or so people ahead of us. There were more initially, but about half left the queue when they noticed the same guy was at the front window waiting to order for over twenty minutes.
By the time I got my food, the eggs were cold and the hash browns were under salted and soggy. Flavor-​wise everything was okay (nothing exciting), but at $ 14 for two eggs, I wouldn’t be able to recommend this place to anyone.

The best thing about this truck is that you can join the queue not hungry, and but the time you eventually get served you’ll be starving. Food trucks are small cramped and hard to work in, but the lack of urgency on full display to the glacially moving queue means dozens of us won’t make this mistake again. The best bit was the dude stopping to wrap plastic cutlery with a napkin & rubber band like there wasn’t anything else to do.

Checked these guys out at Off the Grid over the weekend. 1.5 hour wait. Absolutely ridiculous. I gave up but my bf felt the need to follow through since he had already waited so long. I just don’t get how it would have taken so long, even if they were backed up and didn’t anticipate the huge crowd. Everything seemed like it should be readily prepped except to brown some hash and poach the eggs. About 5 people before and after us had complained too but didn’t want to hop out and end up in the back of the line for another truck as well. One chick made a joke that they’re waiting for the chicken to hatch the eggs. The guy in front jokingly asked us to take a photo of the momentous milestone of reaching the front of the line to order, only to wait another 20 or so minutes to receive his food. Little surprised those comments went unheard, they were pretty vocal about it. We had 2 other friends with us and each of us went to other trucks and booths that finished 45 minutes sooner and each made bathroom trips. My bf finally showed up with food 5 mins after that. It really put a damper on our afternoon with friends since we couldn’t have just gotten the food and enjoyed it all together. My bad for insisting on brunch food and my bf’s bad for not calling it quits when he should have.
I don’t think they even realized how backed up they were because they never addressed it nor apologized for the incredibly long wait.
Oh and $ 3.50 for a cup of Fruit Loops/​cheerios/​Cocoa Crisps is outrageous, especially when 2 gallons of milk had sat out in a metal bowl of melted ice (turned lukewarm water) for 2+ hours in the sun. At least offer almond or soy milk too. Not impressed with their $ 2 store-​bought donuts either.
Good eggs benedict but pricey and DEFINITELY not worth the wait.
Sorry, Benedict Arnold’s. I wanted to like you but I’m very unimpressed by your service, along with several other people in line with us that day.

Amazing breakfast. Service with a smile. What more can I ask for. Bacon was cooked perfectly. Tomatoes roasted just right. So very happy.

TLDR;
Food: tasty, but pricy
Service: Wake up, you’re a breakfast truck
I tried the San Francisco benedict (crab, avocado) which was pretty tasty. The crab meat was actually seasoned, so what could have been a boring benedict was anything but. However, $ 9 for a single egg and some hashbrowns is a bit ridiculous.
Also, despite being nice and tipping when I paid (before I got my food), the dude switched my order with somebody else. If it were busy, I’d be more understanding, but I was one of two people who ordered at that time. When the other guy came back with his food, he realized it was an upgrade ($ 9 benedict as opposed to a $ 5 sandwich he ordered) and the guy in the truck let him keep it. Fine, even though I ordered first, that other guy got basically a free upgrade and his food faster. When I got my food? All I got was a «sorry». I feel like fool for tipping ahead of time…

This is my new favorite SF food truck. I consider myself a Benedict connoisseur, it’s something I order off of every menu if a restaurant has it, it’s a #benediction. Every time I’ve ordered from Benedict Arnold’s the eggs have been cooked perfectly and let’s face it, that is the most important part of the benedict. My favorite things to order are the Number Juan (named after the chef) and the Hipster (for all you vegetarians out there). They also have a great french toast option for anyone with a sweet tooth. My office is right above the G Food lounge in SOMA so it is really amazing that the BABT is there every morning until 10am. The owner is the nicest guy ever and is always open to suggestions and feedback. If you’re a breakfast lover like me, you’ll be making this truck a mainstay in your weekly G Food Lounge visit.

Benedict Arnold’s Brunch Truck features organic eggs benedict with many varieties.
saw a hamburger special (10) later on.
locale: soma street park (⁸⁄₂₈)
eats: «pacific heights» one egg (9), 2 egg (16)
–wild salmon, capers, red onions, on hard muffin, hash browns too.
1 egg on one hard muffin, nothing special about it, salmon nice taste
–hash browns too crispy, not burnt too
2.5 stars, pricey, not much to offer.
notes:
–would definitely turn my coat on this truck.